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The 2023 NBA Finals was the championship series of the National Basketball Association (NBA)'s 2022–23 season and conclusion to the season's playoffs.The best-of-seven playoffs was played between the Eastern Conference champion Miami Heat and the Western Conference champion Denver Nuggets.
The Nuggets made the Finals for the first time in history by sweeping the 7th seeded Los Angeles Lakers in the Conference Finals to advance to the 2023 NBA Finals. On June 12, 2023, Denver won their first championship in franchise history after a 94–89 win against the Miami Heat, defeating them in 5 games.
In game 3, Nikola Jokić and Jamal Murray became the first teammates to record a triple-double in the NBA Finals and the first teammates to both record 30-point triple-doubles in any game. [7] Udonis Haslem, aged 42 years, 363 days, became the oldest player to play in the NBA Finals, coming off the bench in the last minute.
A look at the Nikola Jovic vs. Nikola Jokic story line within the NBA Finals matchup between the Heat and Nuggets. ... 2023 at 1:20 PM. ... Jovic played in 15 games with the Heat this regular ...
The Denver Nuggets are only one win away from their first NBA championship after beating the Miami Heat 108-95 on Friday night to take a 3-1 lead in the title series. Aaron Gordon and Nikola Jokic ...
The Nuggets made an adjustment in hopes of cooling off the Heat’s hot three-point shooting. It worked in Game 3 of the NBA Finals.
On April 3, 2023, Lauri Markkanen became the first player to make 100 dunks and 200 3-pointers in a season [177] On April 9, 2023, the Miami Heat set the record for the most bench points (111) by a team in a game [178] For the first time since the 2000–01 NBA season, no team won 60 games in a full 82-game regular season.
And while the Heat did a good job of keeping Denver from running on the whole — the Nuggets got out in transition on 11% of their offensive possessions in Game 1, according to Cleaning the Glass ...